The retrial of American Amanda Knox and her former Italian boyfriend for the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher opened in Florence on Monday but neither of the accused were in court for the first hearing.
Knox and Raffaele Sollecito

A Chinese court sentenced the wife of disgraced Politburo member Bo Xilai to death on Monday but suspended her execution, ending one chapter in a scandal that has shaken the ruling Communist Party ahead of a leadership transition later this year

The General Military Prosecutor of the Bahrain Defence Force last night announced that the Prosecution has forwarded the case of the murder of policemen Kashif Ahmed Mandhour and Mohammed Farouq Abdul Samad to the civil General Prosecution.